--- title: "How To Restore Outlook Backup After A Mishap | DuoCircle" description: "Join the thousands of organizations that use DuoCircle Find out how affordable it is for your organization today and be pleasantly surprised.Interested in" image: "https://www.duocircle.com/images/og-default.png" canonical: "https://www.duocircle.com/content/backup-email/how-to-restore-outlook-backup/" --- Content # How To Restore Outlook Backup After A Mishap Join the thousands of organizations that use DuoCircle Find out how affordable it is for your organization today and be pleasantly surprised.Interested in [ Talk to an Expert → ](/contact/) [ See what we make ](/products/) ## How To Restore Outlook Backup After A Mishap [MX Backup - Sign Up](/email/email-backup-mx) _Losing an organization’s confidential email can lead to many complications, including, among others, loss of business, loss of reputation, and loss of revenue_. Maintaining backups and having [backup email addresses](/content/backup-email/backup-email-address) is the least one should do to **minimize the damages**. Outlook, the popular email clients businesses use, not just stores emails, but also holds - backup calendar items, - address book entries, - contacts and other data in the form of a PST (Personal Storage Table) file. To create a PST file, you should know [how to backup Outlook 2010 emails](/content/backup-email/how-to-backup-outlook-2010-emails) first. Once you learn the **backup technique** using Outlook’s [email backup wizard](/content/backup-email/email-backup-wizard), you can restore it by following some simple steps. So let’s see how to restore Outlook backup. ![mx backup](https://media.mailhop.org/duocircle/images/2020/11/email-server-backup.png) ### Restoring Outlook’s PST File If you have a [backup email](/content/backup-email) copy in the form of a PST file, you can restore it by importing the [PST file to Outlook](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/import-email-contacts-and-calendar-from-an-outlook-pst-file-431a8e9a-f99f-4d5f-ae48-ded54b3440ac). Let’s see how it is done. - Open Outlook and click on the ‘**File**‘ tab. There you have to go to the ‘**Open & Export**‘ option and click on ‘Import/ Export.’ - Import and Export wizard will open in which you have to select ‘**Import from another program or file**‘ and then click on the Next button. - In import a file window, you have to choose ‘**Outlook Data File (.pst)**‘ or ‘**Personal Folder File (PST)**,’ as per the Outlook version you are using. After that, click on the **Next** button. - Click on ‘**Browse**‘ to find or make a selection of the PST file which you desire to import. Keep a note that Outlook usually checks for .pst file in the Outlook files folder present in Documents. If you want to change the search location, select browse to change it. - After that, You have to choose one of the following options: - **Replace duplicates with the items imported**: This option will allow you to import all your data from the PST file by replacing the similar data. - **Allow to create duplicates**: This option will import all the data and duplicate copies of the similar items that are already present. - **Do not import duplicates**: Similar data will not be imported if you select this option. - After choosing the appropriate option, click on the Next button. - After that, select the folder from which you want to import (optional). Choose whether to ‘**Include subfolders**‘ or not and select the location where to import. You can even use the ‘**Filter**‘ option to filter individual emails. - Once you have set the import criteria, select ‘**Finish**.’ Your data from the PST file will be restored. _The above steps simplify the tedious process of how to restore Outlook backup._ The restore process is quick and allows the businesses to retrieve the emails in case there is a mishap that renders their email client in-operational. It is advisable to always look for the [best ways to back email](/content/backup-email/best-way-to-backup-email), such as outsourcing it to third-party experts who know [how to backup email accounts](/content/backup-email/how-to-backup-email-account) securely and can also help you retrieve them whenever the need arises. MORE – [Email backup softwares](/content/backup-email/email-backup-software) ##### Join the thousands of organizations that use DuoCircle --- Find out how affordable it is for your organization today and be pleasantly surprised. 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